Book of My Mother by Cohen, Albert

Book of My Mother (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935744337)

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Format: Paperback
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Book of My Mother by Cohen, Albert

Book of My Mother

$15.00
Book of My Mother by Cohen, Albert

Book of My Mother

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother's death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for La France libre, which later grew into Book of My Mother. Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, "I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother."

Author: Albert Cohen
ISBN-10: 193574433X
ISBN-13: 9781935744337
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2012
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 6.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d

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Shelf Awareness 05/08/2012
By Albert Cohen
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Abert Cohen was born on the island of Corfu in 1895. He emigrated to France at the age of five on a passport issued by the Ottoman Empire and was raised in Marseilles. Although he chose to become a Swiss citizen after completing law school in Geneva, he claims that his true homeland was the French language. Cohen's tragicomic novels Solal, Mangeclous, Belle de Seigneur, and Les Valeureux attempt to reconnect man to his lost humanity. Belle du Signeur was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman.

Bella Cohen was born in London on 1919. During WWII, she worked at the Free French Headquarters and with the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. She met Albert Cohen in 1943 and shared a life with him from 1947 until his death in 1981. Her translation of Book of My Mother was a labor of love.

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